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Being as friendly possible, Robert Heller and his crew surrendered. As far as he knew, only one of the crew had died,...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

Bernard Baker was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, in February 1924. He grew up with nine siblings. An older...

They went aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in New York. The ship was full. Some of the men had been waiting aboard for a...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Army Air Forces] went overseas in October 1943 on the Argentina...

Eugene Vaadi remained in the military after he was liberated from Moosburg, Germany [Annotator’s Note: Stalag VII A (...

Lowell Brueland became Senior Flight Leader before the Normandy D-Day invasion. He had the opportunity to become the...

Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] left the camp [Annotator's Note: after being interrogated at Dulag...

Jack Buckner was born in Florida but when he was one he moved near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] where...

When Clayton Kelly Gross returned to his unit after his 30 day leave, they were flying the Mustang and he flew it long...

On the Memmingen mission, which was the first day after he arrived, the ball turret gunner was killed on another plane...

Enrique Cervantes flew about 25 missions over Europe. Although he classified those missions as uneventful, they were...

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